Winemaker Notes
This wine is exotic and a one of a kind that rewards the senses. An explosion of lively green apple, citrus and salty baking spices. Floral notes of jasmine and ginger are there with a sense of depth. The wine evolves as the effervescents keep the aromatics of this wine in a constant evolution. The zero-dosage element of this wine has it dancing on the palate from start to finish. It’s alive with an array of citrus, mineral, and spice. Upfront, it’s almost sensory overload but when you come back down to earth citrus, brine and stone fruit settle in with an exotic fruit element that leaves you to sit back and take in its rewarding evolution. This is a micro production wine that is sure to keep the sense in a deep state of satisfying intrigue.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2017 Cadre Ode to Pearls Sparkling Albariño is stylish and bright. TASTING NOTES: This wine dazzles in its aromas and flavors with an active bead, lively chalk, and tart citrus. Enjoy it with light seafood appetizers. (Tasted: August 5, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Spectator
Stylish, sleek and crisp, with fresh grated ginger, lime zest and a touch of celery salt adding lovely aromatics to the core of intense, focused lemon curd and melon Flavors. Finishes strong and refreshing. Drink now.
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Wine Enthusiast
This sparkling wine shows potential for Albarino as a bubbly, starting with crisp aromas of pear and apple, as well as a touch of yogurt. There is sizzling acidity and a pinpoint texture on the palate, where the grippy structure offers rounded flavors of yellow apple and white flowers.
Representing the topmost expression of a Champagne house, a vintage Champagne is one made from the produce of a single, superior harvest year. Vintage Champagnes account for a mere 5% of total Champagne production and are produced about three times in a decade. Champagne is typically made as a blend of multiple years in order to preserve the house style; these will have non-vintage, or simply, NV on the label. The term, "vintage," as it applies to all wine, simply means a single harvest year.
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.